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The Physics Colloquium: Harold Hwang (Stanford University) “Superconductivity in layered nickelates”

Speaker: Harold Hwang (Stanford University)
Date: 4/15/2026
Time: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Loomis Lab 141
Event Contact: Dani Swigart
217-244-8676
dswigart@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
 

Unconventional superconductivity in proximity to various strongly correlated electronic phases has been a recurring theme in materials as diverse as heavy fermion compounds, cuprates, pnictides, and twisted bilayer graphene. Here we will introduce a new and growing family of layered nickelate superconductors. The initial discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates was motivated by looking for an electronic analog of the cuprates. Notable aspects are a doping-dependent superconducting dome, strong magnetic fluctuations, and a landscape of unusual normal state properties from which superconductivity emerges. The subsequent discovery of superconductivity in bulk La3Ni2Ounder high pressure is quite intriguing, in that the d-electron configuration is a priori quite different. Recently, we have used epitaxial strain in (La,Pr)3Ni2Othin films to stabilize superconductivity at ambient pressure, which is promising to extend their experimental study and development.